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1: A Brief History Of The Piano

The piano, that common instrument of school music programs, appears to be the ultimate expression of the stringed musical instrument, which date back to the lyre and the harp. Pian...

By: Kevin Sinclair

2: Tin Pan Alley - Home to New York's Music Publishers

Tin Pan Alley is a term that is synonymous with the American music publishing industry. But, is there actually a Tin Pan Alley, how did it get its name and why has it become a bywo...

By: Adam Singleton

3: The History Of Music: From Grunts To Guitars

Where did music begin, and where is it going? The answers are surprising. There is a modern movement leading humanity back to the music it first created tens of thousands of years ago. A conflicting m...

By: Alex Combs

4: Crossing Over: The Origin of

Crossing Over: The Origin of Soul and the Term “Rock & Roll” "I rock ‘em, roll ‘em, al...

By: Erik Greene

5: History Of The Spanish and Classical Guitar

The Spanish Guitar Emerges:With the coming of the Renaissance, inspired in part by Moslem learning brought home by returning Crusaders, the lute become the favorite instrument of Wester...

By: Mike Hayes

6: What is a gold record?

What is a gold record? Emblematic of recording success, began as a publicity stunt by a record company to ...

By: Doug Gelbert

7: Italian and English Madrigals of the 16th century

  Learn about the Italian and English madrigals. As poetry set to twel...

By: Elaine Schneider

8: Jazz History 1920's

Whilst the origins of the type of music we know as jazz go back many centuries, their true roots in terms of popular appreciation and international exposure really start at the ...

By: Bobby McHavens

9: Beethoven and Napoleon

Beethoven and Napoleon never met. However they played their individual roles in the new "Romantic Age" apparent in Europe at the beginning of the 19th Century. Beethoven, the independent...

By: Bobby McHavens

10: American Founding Father Mozart Celebrates 250th Birthday

The world pauses on Jan. 27 to commemorate, and reflect upon, the blessing of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Born 250 years ago, in 1756, Mozart would come to epitomize the miracle of the child prodigy. How...

By: David Shavin

Basic Guitar Chords: How to Easily Master the Guitar Chords You Must Know

One of the first challenges faced by the advancing guitar player is learning a core group of basic guitar chords. Why is it so important to learn these basic chords? Chords form the backbone of most rock and pop so...

By: Peter Bussey

Alarm Clock Dawn

Focus is hazed aswing-tip dreams come callingsoftly, persistentlythose starched seams...

By: Eric Vance Walton

Sam Cooke - Pioneer for Modern Music

Sam Cooke: Pioneer for Modern Music Rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson made over $50 million in 2004 without ever releasing a song. In today's soci...

By: Erik Greene

Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple...

Rapper and music mogul P. Diddy is being sued for age discrimination.

Music will fill the air and hundreds will fill Lake Park and city streets this weekend during the annual Delavan Fall Festival.   "We'll have eight live music acts who play all kinds of music coming ...

Habeas Corpus Early Music and Dance will give a free performance at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the Senior Center Assembly Room, 28 S. Linn St.

The Concord Music Group has done an impressive job of summarizing the early career of John Coltrane with The Definitive John Coltrane On Prestige and Riverside. Twenty-one tunes, dating from 1955 to 1...